Import from Lightoom help
I use Lightroom (not Classic). I am exporting RAW from LR with option "Original & Settings." When I import those images with sidecars to C1, I thought I would see my crops and most color adjustments preserved, but it looks like the only edits preserved are basic color profiles, but nothing that was touched by a preset, and no cropping or vignetting is preserved.
I've watched the "Import from Lightoom" video and read documentation. I understand that not all Lightroom edits will be preserved when transitioning to C1, but the amount of edits preserved seems like a show-stopper.
I tried importing my existing LR catalog to C1, but it says "Catalog is empty" (it's not).
I also tried exporting a catalog per the documentation, so I could import that and see if it was any different, but Lightroom (new) doesn't have that option - either for the whole catalog or for a single album.
So the current situation is:
- I can't import my LR catalog
- If I export RAW + Settings and import that, crops and all edits are lost (basic profiles seem to be preserved)
I estimate it would take 100+ hours to re-edit all of my images, and I wouldn't want to anyway.
I feel like I'm missing something. Are C1's instructions assuming that people are using LR Classic? Is there no support for importing "new" LR catalogs? Are color profiles really the only edit that is supported with RAW import?
I'm feeling like the transition path is closed to me, unless I am missing something really obvious. Thanks for any suggestions?
I guess I could bring over TIFFs, but those wouldn't be editable like the original RAW files. Maybe that's OK for most of them.
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I have never had the need to import a LR catalog. But I think you are right that the process provided is for Lightroom Classic. Isn't the "new" LR CC cloud-based?
Ian
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Hi Scot,
I did the same a few years ago. And no, you can't import and retrieve in Capture One most of the edits done with Lightroom. If I remember well, the ratings, the crops, the exposure were kept, but that's almost all. Accordingly, I kept Lightroom as a starting point for old pictures...... but after a short while, I didn't use it any longer. Simply because I don't come back to my old pictures, except for a few of them that I consider being worth to revisit, and in that case, I use Capture One, with which I get a better result than the one obtained with Lightroom (maybe because I see today pictures differently).
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@ian wilson: Yes the new version is cloud based, but the originals are still kept on the original computer. You still have to set a storage location. In my case there's a 5GB local library. I would think that C1's importer would see that and be able to work with it, but maybe it's more like a local cache for previews than a full image collection.
@Robert Farhi: Thanks for the feedback. That's too bad. I mean I get it, but it does make for quite a transition barrier. This also means I'm going to lose all of my albums, dangit. So I guess my only option if I want to keep them raw is to export the whole RAW collection from LR Cloud to local, then import them into C1, losing most of the edits, and re-create the albums by hand (that part won't be *too* bad).
Shoot. Thanks both. Any feedback from C1 staff most welcome.
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I did the same as Robert. Twice. When I moved from Aperture to Lightroom I discovered that when I wanted to re-visit an image I'd edited in Aperture I wound up re-editing it in Lightroom. I did the same when I moved from Lightroom to Capture One. Like Robert said, I get a better result from Capture One. Don't know if that is because Capture One is better or I've learned more and now do a better job. Possibly a little bit of both.
Learning from the Aperture to Lightroom conversion I didn't bother keeping Lightroom around when moving to Capture One. What I did do is export a copy of every adjusted image in Lightroom to a spare disk drive to access if needed. If nothing else those images are available to remind me of the edits I made in the past.
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Thanks Marco. I think what I'm going to do is import them twice, into two separate catalogs - the RAWs for reference in case I ever need to go back to them, and TIFFs to be able to keep the editing I've already done. Hate to double up like that but it seems like the safest route. I can always delete one or the other later. I've got the disk space, may as well use it.
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Scot,
As far as I remember, my LR collections were kept as albums when moving to Capture One.
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Robert, apparently that only works when transferring from LR Classic. My dilemma is that I can't import from LR at all since I use the "new" (cloud-based) Lightroom. I have 5GBs of data but it's "local cache" not the actual photo collection. When I try to import to C1 from LR, C1 just errors out with the message "Catalog is empty." So my only option is to export all images and then re-import them. Question is whether to do that as TIFFs, which keep all edits but "baked in" or as RAWs, with only limited edits preserved. I'm doing both. Then over time I will re-edit some of them and delete those TIFFs. Really not a great transition path from the new LR to C1.
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